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Thoughts on this book and Perennial philosophy in general?

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i certainly have the permanently guilty conscience for it. i don't really know why, to be honest. once upon a time i set out to write a fantasy novel that i was sure was not going to have one thing in it, that being religion, which i rather naively assumed was the source of the world's ills. you can see how this has turned out for me.

i have no issue with Christians, they frequently make some of the best writers on subject that interest me. perhaps it is because i believed that the answers i was hoping to get from a close study of postmodernity were in fact only going to be given by perennialism; that a kind of fundamental underlying similarity exists between all mystical traditions is why i don't really associate myself too strongly with any one faith or another. the Sufis, Taoists, Zen, Buddhist and Christian mystics would i imagine all get along fairly well on the issues that really matter. i was associated with a Stoic forum for a while as well, and considered being a mentor with them. unfortunately, Nietzsche had other plans for me at that time! and then Heidegger...

things only seem to get infinitely complicated in the world of practical philosophy, really: capitalism and its discontents. i'm still working out where i am on that.